MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
I am diligently at the bench at least once a week. I enjoy it so much. I was tying up some golden demons to the best of my ability some with collars and some with beards. I have also been trying to tie some hairs ear nymphs, which seem as though they would be rather easy, but I am not finding them so.
I have been referring to manuals and youtube, but they just don't look right. I suspect my hooks were a bit too big (size 10 nymph sprout hooks), and I didn't build up the bodies as much as I should have, so they look more like hairy worms curled into a hook shape.
I never thought nymphs would be very tricky or impressive to tie, so I neglected to really practice them much. Now I am seeing there is an art form to dubbing and working in super small sizes. (And I haven't even dropped to below a 16 yet?)
I'll keep you all posted on any progress I am or am not having.
Theron
Dave
My bench I'll bet is worse than yours 
Hard to believe I can collect that much stuff on one surface. Between the wood, deer hunting, and catching up on the Winter prep stuff that hasn't got done yet it will be a December or maybe even January before I get at it. That leaves plenty of time 
We should start a post of pictures of the most cluttered bench.
Not yet! I will be in the woods for some time yet and then begin tying flies but not until the hunting season is over.
Bobby
Quote by: KypeNot yet! I will be in the woods for some time yet and then begin tying flies but not until the hunting season is over.
Bobby
Bobby, What are you trying to kill? Deer? I used to do the "Muscle" loader gig but that ends the season way to early when you whack em with those smokepoles. Besides, I like fillin em up with the lever guns
A muzzle loader....
Isn't that one of those old guns that when the smoke clears you run down
through the woods steering the bullet with a stick.?
Guess I am like most others..Way to many Fall jobs to dispose off before everything
is buried in snow.before I grab the vise and spread hair and feathers all over the place.
About a week ago I ventured out and cut an ash tree... Fetched about 7 feet of it home
and have spent a week pounding out splints with a 2 and one half pound hammer. I don't
think the doc would approve but the Grandson requested a pack basket like mine. I figure
another week of pounding and I should have enough splints fo weave a couple of baskets.
The wife won't pound ash like she used to, so instead I got her to pile the three cords of wood
that was delivered earlier. this week...The snow shovel dissapeared over the Summer...Looks
like I will have to go to the hardware store and buy her a new one.....It never rains but it pours.
Stephen
Quote by: KodaQuote by: KypeNot yet! I will be in the woods for some time yet and then begin tying flies but not until the hunting season is over.
Bobby
Bobby, What are you trying to kill? Deer? I used to do the "Muscle" loader gig but that ends the season way to early when you whack em with those smokepoles. Besides, I like fillin em up with the lever guns
I have been pushing my left knee as much as I can. It is still swollen and hurts but I am pushing through it. I like being in the big woods even though I know there are not a lot of animals back there but then there are fewer people as well. I have found activity of several black bears and a few good bucks. Rifle season for deer opens next Sat. In the mean time I am enjoying the scouting and may run into a bear. If I find a good one with the right hair on him well...........black bear makes mighty good Atlantic salmon wet flies and I have a friend who would love to eat him and will be there to help with the butchering.
Deer is my favorite wild meat. I loaded up some 120 gr SP for my 6.5X55. 48 gr of IMR 4831 for 2800fps - 2900fps which is excellent deer medicine. Not much different that the 25 06 with its 120gr bullet. I owned one and it was some lethal on deer but required a 24 inch barrel. My 6.5X 55 does that with a 22 inch barrel. Bullet tables indicate that the 120 gr 6.5 actually flies better than the .257 120 gr bullet of the 25 06 but not by much. It is nearly identical.
Kype,
It is good to hear form ya. We are all glad you have not forgotten us here!
Theron
Quote by: stephenA muzzle loader....
Isn't that one of those old guns that when the smoke clears you run down
through the woods steering the bullet with a stick.?
Guess I am like most others..Way to many Fall jobs to dispose off before everything
is buried in snow.before I grab the vise and spread hair and feathers all over the place.
About a week ago I ventured out and cut an ash tree... Fetched about 7 feet of it home
and have spent a week pounding out splints with a 2 and one half pound hammer. I don't
think the doc would approve but the Grandson requested a pack basket like mine. I figure
another week of pounding and I should have enough splints fo weave a couple of baskets.
The wife won't pound ash like she used to, so instead I got her to pile the three cords of wood
that was delivered earlier. this week...The snow shovel dissapeared over the Summer...Looks
like I will have to go to the hardware store and buy her a new one.....It never rains but it pours.
Stephen
Stephen
There just seems to be no end of getting ready for these Winters. I keep saying there is Winter, and then the rest of the year getting ready for the next one. We spent the day yesterday pulling up wood with a 4 wd Kabota tractor which we buried more than once. So much rain this year the skidder road never dried out. It looks like a moose wallow the length of it. Ended up leaving 4 cords behind, maybe when it freezes up we can hit it again.
Did the nuzzle loader gig. In fact, I built a few. A Hawken flintlock in a 58 cal and a few 50 cals. They are fun to shoot, a pain in the ass to clean, and maybe or maybe not in the field. Myself, I'll hold off for the rifle season and then lay em down proper
Bobby
I simplified all that ballistic mumbo jumbo a while back. 200 grain Remington Core Lokt round nose at 2100 fps in a Winchester case with 39 grains of 748 over a Federal 215 Magnum primer. One load kills em all from red squirrels to moose
Once I hunhted with a Ruger No1. I realized the error of that foolishness when a 12 point buck jumped out 6 feet in front of me. I frigged the shot and with no more on tap the critter flew the coop. To Hell with that American sportsman crap. A well honed 336C with one in the chamber and 6 backing it up gets the job done.
As Scott Bedee up in Maine likes to say, Fill em up!
I was wondering if any of you are hitting the bench ? I must admit I haven't been on the vise in a while . I think it's time I hit the bench but first I have to clean it up and then have to come up with a fly to tie. I have to get rid of this lazy bug that has come over me. Well off to take a nap. Then maybe I will clean the bench up . maybe that is the key word.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was
cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.
On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words,
and some of the words are theirs.